Comments on: Help with photoshopping a pic for my boyfriends 21st birthday? http://yesiam21.com/help-with-photoshopping-a-pic-for-my-boyfriends-21st-birthday Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nate http://yesiam21.com/help-with-photoshopping-a-pic-for-my-boyfriends-21st-birthday/comment-page-1#comment-946 Nate Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:52:40 +0000 http://yesiam21.com/help-with-photoshopping-a-pic-for-my-boyfriends-21st-birthday#comment-946 Selina is right. In addition to what she already said, the picture you have is too small, it would take a serious professional a long time to get the effects you wanted on it, so maybe you should consider a slightly different option for his birthday? Selina is right. In addition to what she already said, the picture you have is too small, it would take a serious professional a long time to get the effects you wanted on it, so maybe you should consider a slightly different option for his birthday?

]]> By: selina_555 http://yesiam21.com/help-with-photoshopping-a-pic-for-my-boyfriends-21st-birthday/comment-page-1#comment-945 selina_555 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:27 +0000 http://yesiam21.com/help-with-photoshopping-a-pic-for-my-boyfriends-21st-birthday#comment-945 The link to the example isn't working - it says it is private. The link to the photo of the car does work, and shows a pic that is particularly small - 604 x 453 pixels only !!!!! That is only a fraction of your average P&S camera's image. To have decent quality prints you need 300 dpi, or at the very least 240 dpi. At 240 dpi, the biggest you can get out of it will be 2.52" x 1.89", nowhere near the enormous A2 let alone A1 that you're hoping for. Yes, you can force an image to become bigger, but it will look terrible. Upsizing is always an act of desperation. Even with the best of programs it isn't an ideal solution. Photoshop will let you do it to an extent, in small increments. Genuine Fractals ($160) will do a better job but still has limits. None of them can perform miracles, computers aren't very good at inventing pixels that weren't there in the first place. You should ALWAYS have your camera set to the highest resolution (most pixels) and best quality (least compression). I'm afraid unless you have a MUCH bigger file for that photo, you won't even be able to print it A4 size. The link to the example isn’t working – it says it is private.

The link to the photo of the car does work, and shows a pic that is particularly small – 604 x 453 pixels only !!!!! That is only a fraction of your average P&S camera’s image.
To have decent quality prints you need 300 dpi, or at the very least 240 dpi.
At 240 dpi, the biggest you can get out of it will be 2.52″ x 1.89″, nowhere near the enormous A2 let alone A1 that you’re hoping for.

Yes, you can force an image to become bigger, but it will look terrible.

Upsizing is always an act of desperation. Even with the best of programs it isn’t an ideal solution.
Photoshop will let you do it to an extent, in small increments.
Genuine Fractals ($160) will do a better job but still has limits.

None of them can perform miracles, computers aren’t very good at inventing pixels that weren’t there in the first place.

You should ALWAYS have your camera set to the highest resolution (most pixels) and best quality (least compression). I’m afraid unless you have a MUCH bigger file for that photo, you won’t even be able to print it A4 size.

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